Editing Marchant family (section)

== William and Agnes Wood Marchant ==
We know relatively little about William Marchant or his wife, Agnes. They had had two sons. Their younger son died at age 11, and only 4 months later, William was drafted to WWI. William and Agnes later divorced and she remarried. 

March 27, 1901 he was making plans to open a laundry with J. Verne Smith; apparently the plan changed because the two men opened a wholesale business in 1902 carrying Armour products. 

In 1910 the family composed a “jolly camping party” on a 20-day trip to Brevard with the I.M. Wood family. 

In 1912, he went to Atlanta and returned with a (train) carload of mules, reported as the finest mules ever seen in Greer. 

In Oct., 1913, accepted the position of outside superintendent of the Monaghan Mill in Greenville. Family moved to Greenville in 1914. 

Arrested and fined $5 for being drunk in 1915. 

In 1918, at age 45, he registered for the draft; his registration form shows that at the time, he was in Norfolk, Virginia working as a carpenter for Porter Brothers Contractors. Agnes remained back in Greenville, and was working at Monaghan Mill. He was still working as a contractor in Virginia in late 1920, when another carpenter was arrested and then convicted of forging checks with William's signature.